This town is located beautifully in the lap of nature with many interesting and fun places at a stones throw distance. The Blowing rock, Grandfather mountain, Linville falls, all can be covered in one trip as part of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

When the rustling leaves perish into the earth and all that is left is the white calm of winter, it is best to loose yourself in the tranquility of the mountains. Blowing rock, is such a perfect escape.

Green changing into yellow, orange, red, brown splashes of color between the bright blue skies and fading grass. It’s as though God is preparing for a painting but can’t decide which color to choose from his palette 🙂

We all grow up experiencing an annual obsession for cleanliness and beautification of our house. In the Indian subcontinent it is generally around the festival of Diwali or New year and in the West it is earlier in the year called Spring cleaning! Not to say our home is dirty rest of the year 😛…

That get’s me thinking what is it about the Indian subcontinent that captivates people? There is definitely no scarcity of beauty in the world, so the characterizing factor is probably our colorful and rich traditions.

So here we were driving, listening to some wonderful music, enjoying the warm summer sun when we decided to try our luck to check if the Yates mill tour was available. Little did we know that this visit would prove to be a window into the history of Raleigh.

If you are an amateur artist like me, you may also be in the process of discovering new ways to express creativity. One fine day I decided to try my hand at canvas art, this was a new experience as the only sketching (some may call it doodling) I did before, was on notebooks or…